Cultural Understanding of Wounds, Buruli Ulcers and Their Management at the Obom Sub-district of the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

This study was conducted with the aim to understand some of the cultural belief systems in the management of wounds and patients practices that could contaminate wounds at the Obom sub-district of the Ga South Municipality of Ghana.This was an ethnographic study using in-depth interviews, Focus Grou...

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Main Authors: Eric Koka, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Daniel Okyere, Philip Baba Adongo, Collins K Ahorlu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-07-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4954709?pdf=render